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US
/dɪsˈɹəpʃən/
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[ UK /dɪsɹˈʌpʃən/ ]
[ UK /dɪsɹˈʌpʃən/ ]
NOUN
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an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
there was a gap in his account
it was presented without commercial breaks - the act of causing disorder
- an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity
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a disorderly outburst or tumult
they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused
How To Use disruption In A Sentence
- She slumped down in her chair and tried to absorb this violent, absurd disruption to her well-ordered life. LADY BE GOOD
- He said disputes and votes being called on the order of business were causing needless disruption.
- Construction of subways or overbridges for foot traffic will reduce disruption of traffic.
- The balance of the population and land and environmental disruption question that population growth cause facilitate the formulation of appropriate thoughts of people.
- If the reform stuck to a market-based insurance system - so went the reasoning - access could be within reach of more people without causing disruptions to those benefiting from the status quo. Anja Rudiger: With all eyes on the 'market,' health reform overlooked human rights
- Other than releasing small amounts of oil from the Reserve for very limited short term climatic or pipeline disruptions, extortionist high oil prices that were risking a national economic calamity were never adequate cause to tap the SPR in this administration's reckoning. Raymond J. Learsy: Stop The Energy Department From Hiking Oil Prices By Reinstituting Purchases For The Strategic Petroleum Reserve
- I call on Muslims to limit the use of the phrase Allahu Akbar for prayers alone and avoid using in public to prevent disruptions. Mike Ghouse: Allahu Akbar Is Abused
- Masked protest, intimidatory filming or physical disruption is unacceptable and must be stopped. Times, Sunday Times
- Everyone knows what has to be done and how it is to be done with the least civil disruption.
- As a result they are less willing to accept the increasing costs caused by disruption and seek to recover them through claims.